Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Louisiana

Re: Why Should I Sign A Quit Claim Deed?

Usually people sign these things without compensation because they are decent people and don't want to hold up other decent people over what are minor issues.

You legal recourse is to wait for the parties to sue you in chancery seeking to compel your action and potentially damages for interfering in their transaction and being a butthead in general. Your legator devised him or herself of a piece of property more than three decades ago for what s/he thought was just compensation.

The legator then left you a legacy of which s/he thought you were deserving. I think you should consider what the legator would have done, and then do the right thing no matter what.

There are potential options that could really tie you up if you try to play any games with this situation. Think about having to pay back taxes on that parcel for all that time, where the property owner was paying taxes that he didn't rightly have to pay, or maybe being left with that sliver of property and any bills associated with it where that piece is useless. Or maybe they could just seek to prove they possesed the property.

Nevertheless, by all means, ignore all this free advice and go pay an attorney for his/her time and advice to help you protect your asset.

Regards,

Roger Traversa